Let’s Dance Let’s Dance
In Tango: The Art History of Love, Robert Thompson traces the dance's roots in Afro-Argentine history. Tomas Eloy Martínez's The Tango Singer appropriates its music to explo...
Aug 31, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Marina Harss
Diaghilev in Perm Diaghilev in Perm
Few Westerners have ever heard of Perm. A former czarist administrative center, rustbelt Soviet city and gateway to the gulag, Perm was long off-limits to foreigners.
Nov 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Lynn Garafola
One Step Removed One Step Removed
Those of us who have followed the New York City Ballet and the repertory of the world's greatest choreographer, George Balanchine, since the mid-1950s are filled with spine-tin...
Feb 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Diane Rafferty
Street-Dancing Man Street-Dancing Man
In classical dance, the art of imbalance--the pirouette, the jeté or the mere ethereal, alighted walk that alone makes audiences feel they are getting their money's wort...
Feb 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Ginger Danto
Tap Roots Tap Roots
It's a shame that Savion Glover is trying so hard to hide from the world, because he's the greatest tap dancer who ever breathed.
Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Diane Rafferty
Is It Still Rock & Roll to You? Is It Still Rock & Roll to You?
A lot of nonsense has been written about the choreographer Twyla Tharp and her hit Broadway show, Movin' Out, since it opened at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on October 24.
Dec 5, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Diane Rafferty
Screendance Screendance
I grew up on dance films, although they weren't known as such; they were called musicals.
Mar 4, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Valerie Gladstone